 Action on Armed Violence, a monitoring group, said that 33,846 noncombatants had been killed or wounded during 2023, an increase of 62% on last year and the largest amount since 2010. Again, every one of those is a real life. But still, the question at hand isn't, is it bad when people are killed or maimed? But are we seeing some sort of scary historical rise in people killed? No, not at all.